Ever since the Ottoman Empire's European frontiers began to recede toward Asia, the Balkans have been more or less in an uproar. The Greeks, Serbs, Croats, Montenegrins, Macedonians, Bulgars, Albanians, Rumanians all had their go at the Sultan and then fell to fighting among themselves. Half the time these little nations fought as the puppets of greater European Powers, and the Peninsula's reputation as the tinderbox of Europe was well-earned.
In time the more knowledgeable Balkanese got sick & tired of wars. It was largely as an expression of this feeling that in 1934 four Balkan nations—Turkey, Yugoslavia, Greece and...
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